Corporate Quotes - Page 26

• We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Government, People, Political

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mean, Government, Phrases

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• I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

  Chuck D

  Optimistic, Three, Levels

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey to Australia, now has tons of hip-hop artists. The music and artistry have moved way faster than the corporatization of the music. You do need organization and opportunity for these artists to express themselves, and I don't think it has to come from a corporate co-signing.

  Chuck D

  Country, Rap, Opportunity

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

  David Maraniss

  Cities, Detroit, Factories

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• I want to go further, because it was investment banks, it was insurance companies, it was mortgage companies, all of which contributed.So let's not just be narrowly focused on one part of the problem. We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Issues, Want

  "Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate". www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Issues, Plans

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U.S., but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.

  Mark McNairy

  Fake, Done, Advantage

  Source: wwd.com

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• We're seeing so many people come around and say, "Listen, we want a real conservative. We don't want a Washington dealmaker who will support Democrats and cut deals to grow government and give into the cronyism and corporate welfare."

  Ted Cruz

  Real, Cutting, Government

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Careers, People, Warning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.

  Reese Roper

  Song, Reading, People

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears.

  Chris Hardwick

  Evil, Gears, Kind

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

  Jamie Dimon

  Different, May, Investment

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.

  David Livermore

  Differences, Innovation, Culture

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

  Kevin Allen

  Command And Control, World, Sensitive

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

  Caroline Polachek

  Giving, Machines, Guarantees

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The corporate system is fully psychopathic, and any creative people who enter into business with any of these organizations come up against a lifetime of issues. You just deal with it as you go along. It'll keep on happening until people reorganize the organizations.

  Kevin Shields

  Organization, Issues, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Agreement, America, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They're going to start having to, if I'm president, invest in this country - not in China, not in Mexico.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Agreement, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, Looks

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

  Justin Vernon

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Independence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

  Win Butler

  Crazy, People, Records

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

  Neil Young

  Country, Democracies Have, Usa

  "Neil Young permits Trump to Keep on Rockin'", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2016.

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• The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.

  Neil Young

  Running, People, Office

  "Neil Young permits Trump to Keep on Rockin'", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2016.

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